Showing posts with label soup. Show all posts
Showing posts with label soup. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 2, 2008

Taiwanese Meat Soup 肉羹 [Rou Geng]


"Rou Geng" is a popular taiwanese snack stand dish, boiled pork and fish paste shaped by hand, served in a thick mushroom, Chinese white cabbage and bamboo sprouts soup. Best with black vinegar and white pepper.

Origin: Taiwan.

Variety-type: Meat soup with noodle, rice vermicelli, white rice.
Variety-taste: With dried codfish or with Sate sauce.

How to do?
1. Ground slim and fat pork with machine or knife.
2. Mix pork with salt, sugar, white pepper powder, sesame oil, oil fried red onion and Tapioca flour or potato flour.
3. Mix all with a bit white fish paste, then pinch in shape by hand. Boil in the water fishes up ready to use and keep the soup.
4. Cut mushroom, white cabbage and bamboo sprouts in threads. And cut spring onion ready to use.
5. Boil the bamboo sprout in water, fishes out ready to use.
6. Heat up oil in wok, fry the pre-cut spring onion then scoop up, use oil left in the wok to fry the mushroom and white cabbage threads.
7. Add the soup, boil all together. Add a little potato flour at the end to thicken the soup.
8. Serve ready to use meat in a bowl, pour the thick soup then coriander on the top. Spice with soy sauce, taiwanese black vinegar and white pepper.

Where to eat?
At a meat soup specialist stand in every taiwanese night market or traditional market and food court in department stores.

Photo:
30年老店 阿草赤肉羹 - 新東街35號 (民生國中後門對面)
A-Tsao Chi Rou Geng (30 years store)
Hsing Dong Jie No. 35 (cross street of the Min-Shen junior high's back door)

Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Beef Noodle 牛肉麵 [Niu Rou Mian]


"Niu Rou Mian" is a Chinese noodle soup with noodle, stewed beef, beef broth and vegetable.

Origin: Lanzhou, Gansu province china, since Tang Dynasty (618-907). Now a famous taiwanese dish since Chinese cilvil war.

Variety-style: With beef or without beef 牛肉湯麵[Niu Rou Tang Mian], braised beef 紅燒牛肉麵[Hong Shao Niu Rou Mian], tomatoes beef noodle 蕃茄牛肉麵[Fan Qie Niu Rou Mian].

Variety-noodle: Chinese noodle white and regular size 粗麵[Tsu Mian], wider size 寬麵[Kuan Mian], hand-pulled noodles(Chinese ramen) 拉麵[La Mian], knife-sliced noodles 刀削麵[Dao Xiao Mian], steamed bread 泡饃[Pao Mo], instant noodle 泡麵[Pao Mian], Green beans glass noodle 冬粉[Dong Fen].

Variety-vegetable: Pickled mustard tuber 榨菜[Zha Tsai], Bok choy 小白菜[Xiao Bai Tsai], Choy sum 青岡菜 [Qin Kang Tsai].

Variety-taste: Nature, light, spicy, tomatoes or curry. Lanzhou style, Shandong style, Xian style, muslim style, Taiwan style etc.

How to do? (basic version)
1. Remove beef chuck's blood in boiling water.
2. Stew the beef chuck 40 minutes with a stew bag(existed ready to cook in Chinese supermarket) ingredient: Anise, cinnamon, cumin, nutmeg, cloves, licorice etc. add water, soy sauce, rock sugar, chili etc.
3. When the beef is ready. Cut the beef in slices.
4. Cook the noodle in clear boiled water with salt, pepper or in a broth.
5. Boil the vegetable.
6. Remove the noodle and put in a big bowl, pull the beef broth, set several slices of beef in the bowl, put boiled vegetable and Pickled mustard tuber, chinese chives.

Where to eat?
Taiwanese specialist beef noodle restaurants, Shandong restaurants, Gansu province, Shaanxi province or many noodle restaurants in east, south of China.

Photo:
Yi Pin Xiang ㄧ品香
Min-Shen East Road. Sec. 5, lane 138. Taipei, Taiwan
台灣台北市民生東路五段138巷
(They have the best tomatoes beef noodle soup)